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LIA', hall H

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Grun', ground
Groat, to get the whistle of
one's groat, to play a lo-
fing game

GUDE, the SUPREME BE-
ING; good
Gufty, tafteful

Gully or gullie, a large knife

Guid, good; Guid mornin, good morrow; Guid een, good evening Guidman and Guidwife, the mafter and mistress of the houfe; Young Guidman, a man newly married Guidfather, guidmother, father-in-law and motherin law Gumlie, muddy

Hae, to have Hean, had, the participle Hame, home, Homeward, homeward Hamely, homely, affable Han' or haun', hand Haith, a petty oath Haet, fient haet, a petty oath of negation, nothing Haughs, low-lying, rich lands, valleys Hafh, a sot, Haud, to hold Hale, whole, tight, healthy Hap-ftep an-lowp, hop, fip and leap Hap, an outer

garment, mantle, plaid, &c. to wrap, to cover, to hap Happing, hopping Haflins, nearly half, partly Hain, to fpare, to fave, hain'd, fpared Hawkie, a cow, properly one with a white face Hal' or hald, an abiding place

Havins, good manners, de

corum, good fense Harkit, harkened

Happer, a hopper

Hag, a fcar or gulf in mof

fes and moors

Haverel,

Haverel, a half-witted per- Helim, the rudder or helm

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Hallan, a particular tion wall in a cottage. Ha' bible, the great bible that lies in the hall Haffet, the temple, the fide

of the head Haggis, a kind of pudding boiled in the ftomach of a cow or fheep Hech! Oh! ftrange Hearse, hoarfe

Het, hot

Hertel, herself

Herrin, a herring Herry, to plunder, moft properly to plunder birds nefts Herryment, plundering, devaftation Heugh, a crag, a coal-pit Heeze, to elevate, to raife Heather, heath Hecht, to foretel fomething that is to be got or gi ven; foretold the thing foretold Heapit, neaped

Hera, to tend flocks; one who tends flocks Healfome, healthful, wholefom

Hear't, hear it

Himfel, himfelf

Hizzie, huffy, a young girl

Hirple, to walk crazily, to creep; Hirplin, creeping Hing, to hang Hitch, a loop, a knot Hilch, to hobble, to halt Hilchin, halting Hiftie, dry, chapt, barren Hiffel, fo many cattle as one perfoncan attend Howk, to dig; Howkit, digged, Howkin, digging Howdie, a midwife Hoddin, the motion of a fage country man riding on a cart horfe

Hornie, one of the many names of the devil Houghmagandie,

tion

fornica

Howe, hollow; a hollow,

or dell Howe-backit, funk in the back, Spoken of a horse,

&c. Hove, to heave, fwell Hoy'd, heaved, fwelled Hoyfe, a pull upwards Hoord, à hoard; to hoard Hoordet, hoarded Foode, flowly. leifurely ; Hoolie! take leilure! top! Holt, or hoft, to cough; Hojiin, coughing

Hog

Hog-fcore, a kind of dif tance line, in curling, drawn across the rink *

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alfo fa

Hoy, to urge, Hoy't, urged JAD; jade tem among

fkin

Hoyte, to amble crazily Houfie, dimin. of house Horn, a fpoon made of

horn

Hog-fhouther, a kind of horfe play by juftling with the fhoulder; to justle

Hurdies, the loins, the crup

per

Hughoc, dimin. of Hugh'

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miliar

country folks for a giddy young girl Jaup, a jerk of water; to jerk as agitated water Jauk, to dally, to trifle Jaukin, trifling, dallying Jaw, coarfe raillery; to pour out, to spurt, to jerk as

water

Jink, to dodge, to turn a corner; a fudden turning

a corner

Jinkin, dodging

Jinker, that turns quickly, a gay sprightly girl, a

wag

I'ler-oe, a great grand- Jim, to jump; flender in

child

Icker, an ear of corn
Ilk or ilka, each, every
Ill-willie, ill natured, mali-
cious, niggardly
Indentin, indenting
Ingle, fire, fire place
Ingine, genius, ingenuity
I'fe, I fall or will
Ither, other, one another

the waift, handfome
Jillet, a jilt, a giddy girl
Jirt, a jerk
Jinglin, jingling

Jow, to jow, a verb, which
includes both the fwing-
ing motion and pealing
found of a large bell
Jouk, to ftoop, to bow the

head

Jocteleg, a kind of knife
Jokin, joking
Joyfu', joyful
Jundie, to juftle

Jumpit,

Jumpit, did jump Jumpin, jumping

K

KAE, a daw

Kain, fowls, &c. paid as rent by a farmer Kail, colewort, a kind of broth

Kail-runt, the ftem of the colewort Kebbuck, a cheese

Ken, to know, kend or ken't, knew

Kennin, a small matter Keek, a peep; to peep Keepit, kept Kelpies, a fort of mischievous spirits, faid to haunt fords and ferries at night, especially in florms

Ket, a matted, hairy fleece of wool

King's-hood, a certain part of the entrails of an ox, &c.

Kin, kindred

Kiuttle, to cuddle
Kiutlin, cuddling
Kiangh, carking anxiety
Kirfen, to christen
Kimmer, a young girl, a
goffip

or

Kist, cheft, a shop counter Knaggie, like knags points of rocks Knappin-hammer, a hammer for breaking ftones Knowe, a fmall round hillock Kye, cows

Kythe, to discover, to show one's felf

KYLE, a diftrict of Ayrfhire Kyte, the belly

Kin', kind

Kilt, to trufs up the clothes

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Kirn, the harveft fupper, a LAN, land, eftate

churn; to churn

Kitchen, any thing that eats with bread; to ferve for foup, gravy, &c. Kittle, to tickle; ticklish, likely

Kittlin, a young cat

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Lang, long, to think lang, to long, to weary Lap, did leap,

Lampit, a kind of shell-fish
Laverock, the lark
Lambie, dimin. of lamb
Laughin, laughing

Lawfu',

Lawfu' lawful

Lapfu', lapful
Laigh, low

Lane, lone, my lane, thy lane,
&c. myself alone, &c.
thyself alone, &c.
Lanely, lonely
Lawlan, Lowland; Lallans,
Scottish dialect

Laggen the angle between
the fide and bottom of a
'wo den dish

Link, to trip along
Linkin, tripping
Limp't, limp'd, hobbeled
Linn, a water-fall
Lint, flax, lint i the bell,
flax in floor

Lilt, a ballad, a tune, to
fing

Lintwhite, a linnet
Loan, the place of milking
Loof, the palm of the hand
Looves, plural of loof

Lave, the reft, the remain- Lowe, a flame

der, the others

Laith, loath

Laithfu', bathful, fheepith,
Lairing, wading, and fink-
ing in fnow, mud, &c.-
Laddie, dimin. of lad
Lee-lang, live longo
Leuk, a look, to look
Leeze me, a phrase of con-
gratulatory endearment
Lear, pronounce lare, learn-
ing

Lea'e, to leave

Leifter, a three pronged
dart for ftriking fish
Leugh, did laugh
Leal, loyal, true, faithful
Lightly, fneeringly, to fneer

at

Limmer, a kept miftrefs; a
strumpet
Livin, living

Lowin, flaming

Lowfe, to loofe

Lowf'd, loofed
Loot, did let

Loun, a fellow, a ragamuf
fin, a woman of eafy vir

tue

Lowrie, abbreviation of Law

rence

Lug, the ear, a handle
Lugget, having a handle
Luggie, a fmall wooden dish
with a handle

Lunt, a column of fmoke;
to smoke
Luntin, fmoking
Lunch, a large piece of
cheefe, fleth, &c.
Lum, the chimney
Lyrt, of a mixed colour,

grey

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